2/07/2008

Mitt Romney is suspending his campaign for president."If this were only about me, I'd go on," he said during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. "I feel I now have to stand aside for our party and our country."Mr. Romney faced a series of enormous challenges in the campaign, not the least of which was trying to reconcile the moderate political views he espoused as the governor of Massachusetts, a liberal state, with the more conservative views he championed on the campaign. That tension - and his decision to change positions on a number of emotionally-charged issues, including renouncing his past support for abortion rights - led his rivals to continually lambaste him as a flip-flopper.